[HOT] Black Forest Fire

[Russell Deffner]

Hello OSM-US community (and Hotties),

 

First I had a blast at SOTM-US and it was great to meet so many of you!

 

Unfortunately I am emailing these lists with terrible news.  The Black
Forest Fire in Colorado is now being called 'the most destructive' in our
state's history; that phrase is getting old as some of you are probably well
aware that the previous 'most destructive' fire was just last year, the
Waldo Canyon which destroyed approx. 346[1] homes.  I'm not going to try and
give any facts on the BFF as it's still a very active situation.

 

If I haven't had a chance to meet you, I do GIS work mainly in the
emergency/disaster services world.  I and other mappers (thank you for those
who have already jumped in) have done a pretty good job getting the road
network fixed up and are beginning to add detail to the BFF area[2].  I
would suggest there is and will continue to be a desire for building
outlines; I know there can be some debate to map structures that may have
already, or could potentially, be destroyed soon; my take is that I've heard
the firefighters are obtaining a survival/save percentage as high as 80%
even in the worst of scenarios.  So in my opinion it is still advantageous
to trace buildings (from Bing, etc.) and will be easier to come back later
and mark appropriately those destroyed.

 

I copy this message to HOT just in case someone would like to set up the
Tasking Manager for tracing buildings; and to see if potentially Mapmill
will be activated once the smoke clears enough for imagery.  Email me or I
watch the talk-us and HOT mailing lists.

 

Thank you in advance for anyone who pitches in mapping this tragic event.
See [2] below for the general area, I've basically outlined the area of
concern with the (yes, rough, please improve) landuse polygons.

 

Russell Deffner

russdeffner on OSM

russdeffner at gmail.com

 

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_Canyon_fire 

2. http://osm.org/go/TzfAkq99- 

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